Transfer-ticket.



W. J. HUGHES.

TRANSFER TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED IuNI: II4 I91 I.

Lllm. PaIenIed Nov. 23, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nev. 23, 1915.

Application filed .Tune 8, 1911. Serial No. 632,082.

To aZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that T, lvViLLIAM J. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Tmprovements in Transfer-Tickets, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to those transfer tickets which are used by street railways for transferring passengers from one car to another on intersecting lines in order that they may travel on both to reach their destination, and more particularly the invention relates to transfers for street-car lines which intersect at two different points, so as to form a closed loop.

The objects of the invention are to prevent the practice known as looping by which a person living near one of the points of intersection of the two car lines takes a car on one line headed toward the other point of intersection, and getting a transfer to the other line at said point of intersection, leaves the car at said other point of intersection, transacts his business, and returns home on his transfer, thus making two trips for the price of one; to prevent this practice by using a special form of transfer which as to appearance and its use for other purposes should be substantially the same as those heretofore employed; to thus prevent cheating and the consequent loss to the railway company, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure 1 is a diagram showing` two intersecting street railway lines, and Fig. 2 illustrates my improved transfer.

In said drawings, and particularly Fig. 1 thereof, l indicates the business section of a city and 2 a suburban or residential section. Enough of the streets are represented to show two street car lines 3 and 4 which intersect both in the business section 1 of the city and also in the residential section 2, although between said points of intersection the two lines separate widely. Under conditions existing heretofore, a person in the residential section 2 could take either of the street car lines 3 or l to the business section 1, and having taken a transfer at the point of intersection, to the other line, could return home by said other line after attending to an errand or some matter which did not require much length of time. The round trip could thus be made for a single fare. The same thing could of course be done by a person in the business section in the citydesirmg to reach the residential section 2, as for instance a clerk going home to lunch.

By my invention, a prominent street or some other natural dividing line which crosses the two street railway lines 3 and t between the points 1 and 2 where looping is done, is selected, as the street 5 in said Fig. 1 of the drawing and the territory on opposite sides of said street 5 designated as dierent districts, for instance, as district No. l and district No. 2. The rule is then made that a passenger boarding a car on either line 3 or 4 and desiring a transfer to the other line must use said transfer at the point of intersection of the two lines which is in the same district where he boarded the car. This rule is enforced by having upon the transfer ticket which is given the passenger some designation of district No. 1 and district No. 2, either of which may be punched by the conductor upon issuing the transfer. Then if the passenger presents a transfer punched for district No. 2 at thel transfer point in district No. 1 it will not be accepted, and vice versa. Obviously this designation of district upon the transfer ticket could be done in different ways, but for purposes of illustration I have shown in Fig. 2 a transfer ticket 6 which provides at one end of itself, the end opposite the stub end, as shownin the drawing, spaces 7 and 8 which are marked districts No. 1 and No. 2, and also have said districts designated by streets for greater clearness. The transfer ticket shown is otherwise like those already in use, and my designationrof districts can easily be added by simply lengthening the transfer ticket a little. Then the conductor punches either one space or the other, 7 and 8, at the same time he otherwise punches the transfer as at present.

Tf the passenger presents his transfer in another district from that where it was issued, but on a line which does not afford any opportunity for looping it will be accepted, but if he attempts to use it upon the other loop line, so as to practically return to his starting point, it will be refused.

It will be understood that the designation of districts upon the transfer ticket may be in filly `Suitable amuser s0 that the Conductor can punch or otherwise designate any one of them, and that I do not limit myself to the two districts which I have shown for purposes of illustration; it is possible that under some conditions there might be more than two districts.

My improved transfer ticket by which different districts may be designated thereon may have upon itself in addition thereto any desired matter, and my invention is thus obviously adapted to be applied to any transfer ticket now in use by addition thereto or rearrangement thereof.

Having' thus described the invention, what l claim is:

A transfer ticket fora railway having two Ycarlines which form with each other two separated transfer points common to both lines, said ticket having upon itself the names of transfer points along the car line on which the transfer is to be used and also having upon itself designations of two districts into which the portions of said car lines between said two common transfer points are transversely divided intermediate thereof, whereby when the transfer is issued in said districts the particular district in which it is issued may be indicated and on other parts of the line the transfer may be issued without any such indication.

WILLIAM J. HUGHES. In the presence of- CHARLES B. MCCOURT, M. R. BOYLAN.

Copes'of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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